Bug 66481
| Summary: | Mouseconfig devices only go up to 'M' | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Akkana <akkzilla> |
| Component: | mouseconfig | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.blankslate.net/comp/wacom.php | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:49:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I have just completed a text mode interface for redhat-config-mouse, which means that mouseconfig will be deprecated in the next release of Red Hat Linux. Therefore, I will not be putting any development time towards fixing mouseconfig bugs, so I'm closing this as 'wontfix'. Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
Description of Problem: First, I want to say that 7.3 really rocks. The only hardware I have that it doesn't support are devices for which the support is so new that it hasn't been officially released. The 7.3 kernel, X, and gimp all support my wacom graphics tablet (USB Graphire 2), but I had to edit XF86Config-4 by hand to add the devices. When I first booted with the wacom plugged in, kudzu detected it and fired up mouseconfig; but mouseconfig's alphabetical list of hardware only went up to 'M' ("MM HitTablet (serial)" was the last entry). If mouseconfig had an entry for wacom devices, connecting a wacom to Redhat would be totally plug-and-play. You're very close now (on hardware that was very frustrating to install in earlier linux distros). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mouseconfig-4.25-1 How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run mouseconfig 2. Hold down "Page Down" until it stops scrolling. Actual Results: See devices starting with 'M'. Expected Results: Devices ending in 'W' at least. Additional Information: Here are the lines I added to make my USB wacom work. Serial wacoms are similar but slightly easier (I think you just remove the USB option line and change the Device to the appropriate serial mouse device, but I can get definite info if you need it). http://www.blankslate.net/comp/wacom.php is a great howto for usb wacoms. The DebugLevel lines may not be needed (I haven't yet tried removing them) but they don't seem to hurt anything. Add to ServerLayout section: InputDevice "stylus" "AlwaysCore" InputDevice "eraser" "AlwaysCore" InputDevice "cursor" "AlwaysCore" Add in Devices section: # # Wacom graphire tablet ... # see http://www.blankslate.net/comp/wacom.php # Section "InputDevice" Identifier "stylus" Driver "wacom" Option "Type" "stylus" Option "USB" "on" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" Option "Mode" "absolute" Option "DebugLevel" "10" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "eraser" Driver "wacom" Option "Type" "eraser" Option "USB" "on" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" Option "Mode" "absolute" Option "DebugLevel" "10" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "cursor" Driver "wacom" Option "Type" "cursor" Option "USB" "on" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" Option "Mode" "Absolute" Option "Speed" "3.0" Option "DebugLevel" "10" EndSection # End Wacom section